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Old Fri Oct 18, 2013, 12:05pm
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Originally Posted by youngump View Post
If you want to go to the trouble of reasoning it out, the BR is not retired until the ball becomes fair. So no he's not a retired runner interfering with the play.
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But you don't have to go to that trouble. It's 8-2-I.
Actually, it's 8-2-F. The ball is dead at that instant. The events that would lead you to 8-2-I happened after the ball was dead - and thus didn't happen at all.
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